windows sealed tight
nothing moves through here
yet an #acrid trace
slips between each breath
and settles in the lungs
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"I can't move."
"The #paralyzing agent will wear off in a little bit. You're perfectly fine."
"You could've called me. Or sent me an e-mail, you know."
"You're a hunter. Couldn't take my chances."
"I don't kill every werewolf on sight."
"Silver bullets? Come on."
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"They never wanted the #limelight. They wanted to exist in peace, without any fuss." He crossed his arms. "Now that everyone knows, we get all the nutcases with stakes."
"They aren't exactly a good bunch--"
"You'd defend your family too."
"Vampires have families?"
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A #mercenary works for anyone for coin. You had to leave your morals and conscience at the door. Survival of the fittest, and all those cliches.
So this gig was like any other. A paid patron that needed a job done. So what if the guy was undead? As long as I got paid.
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"You realize they're gonna notice this?"
"Oh, they're gonna notice." He wiped blood off his knife.
"What if they want #retribution? They're gonna come after you."
He grinned maniacally. "Let 'em come. They're zombies. I can do this all day."
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" #Cerberus?"
"Yeah." He strode up and scratched the middle head, then other two heads. "I mean, the name lends itself."
"Obviously. Where'd you find them? At the gates of hell?"
"At the corner of Styx and Charon. Looked like he hadn't eaten for a while...so I fed him."
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"' #positiveevil '? Isn't that an oxymoron?"
"No. Sometimes you have to do morally questionable things to get a positive result."
"Lawful evil."
"If you want to put it that way, yes."
"Still doesn't make it right."
"Right and wrong is moral judgment. Life just IS."
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" #Brokenbones, bruised liver, collapsed lung..."
"Don't need the laundry list, Doc. I'm done for anyway. Get the hell out of here. I'll hold them off as long as I can."
"And they'll make you one of them. I think not."
"Doc--"
"Do no harm, but take no shit. Up you get."
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He sat upright against the stones, his hand over the #mortal #wound in his gut. He stared at the pale woman who knelt at his side. Her crimson eyes were kind.
"Are you here to take me to paradise?"
She shook her head and bared her fangs.
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He was the only one who listened to her #delirious ramblings. Her doctors dismissed them as fever dreams. But her words were too precise, too descriptive of the current spate of supernatural killings.
She was not the culprit. But now he knew who was.
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Her #hypnotic gaze drew him like a moth to a flame. He knew that she would be his downfall, but he didn't care. He lived for her, he would die for her. All he wanted was her look and her touch.
They might call him pathetic. But the eldritch power was worth it.
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Words cut #razorsharp and wound the soul. Sometimes pain is not quite so metaphorical. Not when there are blades involved and a thousand cuts to your body. Anguish is more than just mental, you know. The body fuels the mind, and vice versa.
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The most accommodating person in the party hid their #silentrage deep. None of them suspected the resentment, the loathing, the irritation as they took advantage of their good nature.
When they began disappearing one by one, they didn't suspect the killer among them.
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An #eternal loop of anger, revenge, redemption. Rinse and repeat. Each cycle drained years from one's life. Skin like paper, sunken cheeks, eyes glazed with rage, satisfaction. Blood on your hands and weight on your soul.
And some prefer it that way.
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"We're supposed to #exterminate the rats, right?"
"That's in the contract, yeah."
"No one mentioned DEMON rats."
"Nope."
"Like that one."
He looked at two meter tall rat watching them from the shadows with crimson eyes. "Yup."
It opened its fanged mouth to scream.
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"What are #yokai?" he asked, confused.
"Japanese demons from folklore," she replied. "Some are evil, others just want attention."
"Like that one?" His eyes widened at the guitar with large eyes and legs.
"Ah, the biwa-bokuboku. He's telling you not to neglect your lessons."
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It didn't matter. Millionaire or pauper, noble or common, their #blueveins stood out on pale skin. The same blood carried the virus that rotted them from the inside out.
In the end, great wealth availed them not. Their brains could not use them.
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"That's odd...so many #flowers on her grave."
I looked at the blossoms arranged around the headstone. Bright marigolds, crysanthemums, forget-me-nots, lilies in colourful bouquets. But the odd ones caught my attention. Black roses, nightshade and...garlic?
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It had only been fifteen minutes, but it was long enough for their blood to freeze #inthesnow. Their bodies were already stiff and cold, their hands locked in a desperate clasp together.
Their pursuers shrugged. The blizzard was obliterating their footprints.
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"We don't need you to #waste #away. You hardly eat anything!" She served lunch: a rare roast beef sandwich, with a bowl of beet soup. "Eat up!"
I didn't want my meat charbroiled, but the cow was still mooing between the slices of bread. The soup was oddly metallic for beets.
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"Hey, #Mary-Jane, ever seen this?"
Her friend held a rolled up cylinder between her fingers. She'd never seen it before. Curious.
"What *is* that? A cigarette?"
"Kind of. Wanna try?"
It opened her mind to all sorts of dark possibilities. The newness of it thrilled her.
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"Hey, #Mary-Jane, ever seen this?"
Her friend held a rolled up cylinder between her fingers. She'd never seen it before. Curious.
"What *is* that? A cigarette?"
"Kind of. Wanna try?"
It opened her mind to all sorts of dark possibilities. The newness of it thrilled her.
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The art of life: bringing it, shaping it, nurturing it. A #zoetic calling, the healers, the mothers, the teachers.
They added a new job, the zoemancers, who promoted life at any cost. No one had to die, life was too precious. They extended the living, not raised the dead.
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They pulled the towel away from the mirror. The cracks #fractured it into multiple shards, multiple worlds. They saw their distorted images in the glass. Different prisms of light flashed in their eyes.
And the reflections all looked hungry.
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"How goes the excavation?"
He brought her to the recently dug up site. A wealth of bones...but not adult ones. She paled as she stared at them.
"Babies. We're looking at a case of #infanticide."
She felt icy cold. "What monster could--?"
"Someone with a black heart."
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First short story posted in three months. "The Headless Writer", a longer version of my response to the #horrorwritingprompt from @pgpayt.bsky.social and @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social.
The Coffeehouse is my prose blog. Check it out! 😁
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First short story posted in three months. "The Headless Writer", a longer version of my response to the #horrorwritingprompt from @pgpayt.bsky.social and @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social.
The Coffeehouse is my prose blog. Check it out! 😁
e8thespressowriting.blogspot.com/2026/01/writ...
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The meal was #poisoned, but the victims did not die.
They lost all rational thought, all manner of resistance. They became comfortable with what they were told. They closed their ears and accepted the absurd.
Their fates were far worse than just death.
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"Mankind has too much of an appetite for #destruction. They think what is destroyed can be built again." The demon shrugged. "They only care about the moment. That will be their downfall."
She couldn't see the fault in its words. Her own kind were demons in their own way.
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#luminescent lights swirled around her. They were the pieces of lost souls, fated to forever drift and search for completion. She beckoned them into her hand like little children. And slowly she stitched them into a new, frightening being.
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